Cheney sisters' gay-marriage fight: A Ggrich has some advice - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• WHY DO NEWT GGRICH THK GAY PEOPLE NEED TO BE MORE TOLERANT?
• NEWT GGRICH'S GAY HALF SISTER SAYS SHE WILL 'WORK REALLY, REALLY HARD' TO GET OBAMA REELECTED
• NEWT GGRICH TALKS GAY MARRIAGE ON STOP AT WASH. CAPOL
• NEWT GGRICH URG REPUBLINS TO RETHK OPPOSN TO GAY MARRIAGE
• NEWT GGRICH SIGNS NOM’S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE PLEDGE
• NEWT GGRICH COMPAR GAY MARRIAGE TO PAGANISM
• NEWT GGRICH ON GAY MARRIAGE: SHAMELS AND/OR FEARLS
• CHENEY SISTERS’ GAY-MARRIAGE FIGHT: A GGRICH HAS SOME ADVICE

WHY DO NEWT GGRICH THK GAY PEOPLE NEED TO BE MORE TOLERANT?

And he's the news bee of a gay kiss.

The kiss was between Michael Sam, the first openly gay player the NFL, and his boyiend, Vo Cammisano.

NEWT GGRICH'S GAY HALF SISTER SAYS SHE WILL 'WORK REALLY, REALLY HARD' TO GET OBAMA REELECTED

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After all, when gay rights groups lobbied for the dismissal of Mozilla chief executive Brendan Eich over his opposn to gay marriage, Ggrich nounced their "new fascism" Former NFL player Jamal Anrson, who was a gut on the show, wasn't nvced. "Shouldn't we also be teachg people who are gay to be open and unrstandg of people who …"Y? Do say: "I have no problem wh homosexualy …"Don't say: " … I jt don't want rammed down my throat.

12/20/2012Washgton– In an terview wh the Huffgton Post, former Republin printial ndidate and Hoe Speaker Newt Ggrich ma remarks ditg he and other GOP lears should embrace civil marriage equaly – the latt sign of powerful momentum for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) equaly this year.

NEWT GGRICH TALKS GAY MARRIAGE ON STOP AT WASH. CAPOL

Newt Ggrich is jt the latt of those who once opposed marriage equaly to evolve to a posn of supportg the rights of gay and lbian upl to marry.

”The Human Rights Campaign is the largt natnal lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr polil anizatn wh members throughout the untry.

'I'll work really, really hard to get Obama re-elected': Newt Ggrich's gay half-sister slams her brother's opposn to gay marriage The gay half-sister of Republin printial ndidate Newt Ggrich slammed his posn on gay rights on Wednday and said she will support Print Barack Obama the 2012 electn. Candace Ggrich-Jon, a gay rights activist, told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow that she and her olr half-brother, the former speaker of the Hoe of Reprentativ, were 'mutually rpectful' but disagree on gay rights.

NEWT GGRICH URG REPUBLINS TO RETHK OPPOSN TO GAY MARRIAGE

Mr Ggrich's mpaign nearly sputtered to a halt last summer, but he has recently soared to the top of the polls the Republin ntt to choose a nomee to face Mr Obama the 2012 Ggrich is known for his socially nservative views and has said he oppos gay marriage. Ms Ggrich-Jon, a director at the Humans Rights Campaign, a gay advocy group, said he did not attend her weddg to her wife Rebec.

NEWT GGRICH SIGNS NOM’S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE PLEDGE

The issue of gay rights is somethg that has long been touchstone of Republin polickg, and is startg to appear more the current race as certa ndidat, like Rick Perry, beg to start g harsher rhetoric on the topic. Newt Ggrich Talks Gay Marriage On Stop At Wash.

NEWT GGRICH COMPAR GAY MARRIAGE TO PAGANISM

– Former Hoe Speaker Newt Ggrich says he oppos gay marriage, but is fortable lettg voters ci the issue for their own state.

Another guy who has : Newt Ggrich, who is now enuragg Republins to rethk their posn on gay marriage. "The realy is gog to be that a number of Amerin stat – and will be more after 2014 – gay relatnships will be legal, perd, " Ggrich measur legalizg same-sex marriage passed last month Maryland, Washgton and Mae. It was the first time gay marriage had passed a statewi referendum, as opposed to beg stuted through a urt cisn.

Durg the recent printial mpaign he showed himself willg to totter plenty far out on the limb of anti-gay bigotry, at one pot llg same-sex marriage "pagan behavr" – and meang a bad unrlyg sense, however, is that Ggrich don't re eply about the issue, except for how plays on the htgs. 12/15/2011Washgton - GOP printial hopeful Newt Ggrich signed the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage’s (NOM) anti-gay “Marriage Pledge” earlier today.

NEWT GGRICH ON GAY MARRIAGE: SHAMELS AND/OR FEARLS

Human Rights Campaign Print Joe Solmone issued the followg statement regardg Ggrich’s signature:"Newt Ggrich’s signature to the NOM Marriage Pledge is jt the latt ditor of how beholn the GOP printial ndidat are to anti-gay groups. In a letter to the anti-gay anizatn, Ggrich vowed to support DOMA and a feral marriage amendment. That marriage vow lls homosexualy a choice and a threat to public Human Rights Campaign is Ameri’s largt civil rights anizatn workg to achieve lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr equaly.

Nor did meet wh the growg number of their supporters well-fund outsi groups on the nservative forc cid their e would be legislatn to disurage same-sex marriag, maly by nyg all manner of feral benefs to legally married gay upl.

Phg the bill the heart of mpaign season, they reckoned, would guarantee an easy w a Congrs where the gay rights lobby wasn’t much of a force (yet), and when Democrats close rac would oppose the measure at nsirable, Ggrich and his forc strategized, their effort would raise the GOP lns donatns, rally cultural nservativ swg stat to support printial challenger Bob Dole, and drive an awkward wedge between Clton and his gay unr-the-Dome predictns were rrect: The bill cleared four months after s troductn, unthkable speed for a high-profile domtic policy proposal now. Pollg by Gallup found 68 percent of Amerins opposed to legalizg gay marriage and only 27 percent favor, so there weren’t many swg voters to motivate.

CHENEY SISTERS’ GAY-MARRIAGE FIGHT: A GGRICH HAS SOME ADVICE

There were three openly gay men the Hoe the year DOMA beme law. Now there’s a lbian senator and five openly gay men and a bisexual woman the Hoe.

”That probably as ld fort to Steve Gunrson, who now ns the tra associatn of for-prof lleg but st the only Republin vote agast DOMA when he was a Wisns ngrsman (and the first openly gay member of the Hoe GOP) his 1996 floor speech, Gunrson said he would have been willg to vote “to reaffirm that the word marriage reprents a unn between a man and a woman, ” if only the speaker would ease off a b on the nial-of-benefs provisns.